50 Fun Facts About Movember & Moustache

The word Movember is a portmanteau of November and 'mo', an Australian slang word for what?

The charity's stated goal is to 'change the face of men's health', and it calls its participants Mo Bros.

Which three men's health issues does Movember focus on?

A 2012 BMJ paper argued the campaign overemphasised screening while pressing 'more pressing concerns' like alcohol and obesity into near silence.

In which Australian city did the group that became the Movember Foundation hold its first event in 2004?

Thirty men grew moustaches for 30 days; the next year nearly 500 people raised over $40,000 for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia.

An unrelated group coined 'Movember' in 1999 in which city, raising money for the RSPCA?

They called their campaign 'Growing whiskers for whiskers' and started with 80 men before it spread nationwide.

How many men took part in the first Movember Foundation event in 2004?

Adam Garone, Travis Garone, Luke Slattery and Justin Coughlin recruited 26 friends who wanted to 'bring back' the moustache.

As of 2011, which country's participants were the largest contributors to Movember of any nation?

Movember reached North America in 2006 and gained official US charity status in 2009.

What are the Moscars?

Stan Lee served as head judge in 2012 and gave the prize to a South African parody of 'Call Me Maybe'.

Which airline painted a moustache and 'Movember.com' onto one of its planes in 2011?

The same year the world's largest sandcastle mo was built on Bondi Beach.

Which Parks and Recreation star's 2012 Movember video was one of the year's most watched?

It drew 1.9 million views, and he made more sketches for the 2013 campaign.

In 2013 the National Trust allowed a huge grass moustache to be added to which English chalk hill figure?

The designer said it was 12 m wide, though the Trust and the BBC reported a more modest 36 feet.

Which snack brand turned its moustachioed mascot into a QR code for Movember 2023?

Royal Mail has stamped British post with a special moustache postmark every November since 2012.

Which men's testicular cancer campaign merged with Movember in 2010?

Decembeard, launched in 2015, promotes bowel cancer awareness instead.

US Air Force members grow moustaches each March in honour of which triple-ace fighter pilot?

His extravagantly waxed curl broke Air Force regulations, and anyone who starts growing in February is disqualified.

Which former Victorian premier founded the depression charity Beyond Blue in 2000?

It began as a five-year government initiative and today gets around 70 percent of its funding from governments.

Roughly what size is a healthy adult prostate gland?

It sits below the bladder, surrounds the urethra and weighs about 11 grams.

What is the average age at which prostate cancer is diagnosed?

About 1.2 million cases are diagnosed each year, and inheriting certain BRCA2 variants raises the risk.

What does the PSA blood test used in men's cancer screening measure?

A high level raises the risk, but diagnosis requires a biopsy and a Gleason score.

Testicular cancer most commonly strikes men in which age range?

Germ cell tumours are the most common cancer in men aged 15 to 35, but the five-year survival rate in the US is about 95 percent.

Even when testicular cancer has spread widely, chemotherapy offers a cure rate greater than what?

More than 95 percent of cases are germ cell tumours, and outcomes are better still when the disease is localised.

The English word 'moustache' ultimately derives from a Hellenistic Greek word meaning what?

Mustax passed through Medieval Greek and Latin into Italian mustacchio before French handed it to English.

A moustache appears on a statue of which ancient Egyptian prince from around 2550 BC?

A Scythian horseman from 300 BC is another early portrait of a shaved man with a moustache.

Until which year were moustaches a compulsory part of the British Army uniform?

Soldiers still wore them often in the Falklands campaign decades later.

How long is the world's longest moustache, grown by Ram Singh Chauhan of India?

It was measured on an Italian TV show in Rome in March 2010.

Which moustache style is bushy with small upward-pointing, waxed ends?

Wild West figures like Wyatt Earp wore it, and left unwaxed it starts to droop.

Which moustache style, shaved to about an inch in the centre, was made famous by Chaplin and Oliver Hardy?

Its association with Hitler made it extremely unpopular for nearly a century afterwards.

Mark Twain, Nietzsche and Sam Elliott are all associated with which drooping moustache style?

In Germany the style is most associated with Otto von Bismarck; Theodore Roosevelt wore one too.

Tom Selleck, Freddie Mercury and Richard Petty all wore which style, popular in 1970s and 80s America?

It covers the area between nose and upper lip out to the lip's edges but no further; on Magnum, P.I. it came with an aloha shirt and a Ferrari.

Which thin, closely clipped style, popular in the 1940s, is particularly associated with Clark Gable?

Errol Flynn, Vincent Price, Little Richard and Prince also wore it, and Jimmy Buffett wrote a song about it in 1974.

Hulk Hogan and Joe Exotic are known for which lip-corner-to-jawline moustache style?

Also called the biker moustache, it is often confused with the curled-end style.

The Fu Manchu moustache takes its name from a villain created by which author?

Oddly, the literary Fu Manchu had no moustache at all; it first appeared in a 1929 British film serial.

Salvador Dalí modelled his flamboyant upturned moustache on that of which 17th-century painter?

Along with his cape and walking stick, the waxed mo became an icon of the Dalí brand after World War II.

The world's oldest whisker club was founded in 1947 in whose dressing room at London's Windmill Theatre?

Its sole membership rule is 'a hirsute appendage of the upper lip and with graspable extremities'; beards are forbidden.

Where was the first World Beard and Moustache Championships held in 1990?

Austin's 2017 event was the largest yet, with 738 competitors from 33 countries.

Which Russian ruler introduced a beard tax in 1698 to westernise his subjects?

Those who paid carried a copper or silver 'beard token'; police could forcibly shave anyone who refused.

Which Oakland A's pitcher grew his curled moustache in 1972 for Charlie Finley's $300 facial-hair prize?

He later refused to shave it for the Reds' Marge Schott, telling them to 'shave her Saint Bernard' first.

Which Hollywood star said he grew a moustache so people would stop saying he looked like Marlon Brando?

Brando reportedly could not stand him, a feud Reynolds never understood.

Which Calgary Flames legend's bushy red moustache made him one of hockey's most iconic figures?

He won the inaugural King Clancy Memorial Trophy in 1988 for his humanitarian work with the Special Olympics.

Charlie Chaplin first wore his prop moustache in which 1914 film, his first as the Tramp?

Kid Auto Races at Venice was released first, but he had worn a full moustache for his debut in Making a Living.

According to historian Susan Walton, how was facial hair viewed at the start of the Victorian era?

The moustache only later became the emblem of the Victorian gentleman we picture today.

In which year did the Movember Foundation obtain official charity status in the United States?

US participants alone raised more than $7.5 million the following year.

How many people signed up for Movember worldwide in 2012, raising upwards of $95M?

That year the Global Journal named it one of the world's top 100 NGOs.

Which video game series let players grow moustaches during November in its 2015 edition?

FIFA 14 Ultimate Team ran a Movember Cup, and Sony issued a moustache sticker for the DualShock 4 controller.

How much did the second Movember event in 2005 raise for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia?

Nearly 500 people took part, and at the time it was the largest donation the foundation had ever received.

In which year did the campaign first launch outside Australasia, including Canada, the UK and the US?

Ireland, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Spain, Israel, South Africa and Taiwan joined the same year.

Which comic-book legend served as head judge of the 2012 Moscars?

He gave the award to South African comedy duo Derick Watts & The Sunday Blues for a parody of 'Call Me Maybe'.

Who was the first International Man of Movember, crowned in 2010?

The winner is picked from 21 national champions voted in at each country's end-of-November Gala Parté.

Which Sydney stretch of sand hosted the world's largest sandcastle moustache in 2011?

The same year Qantas painted a moustache on a plane and Google Chrome made a Movember video that drew over 1.1 million views.

Which footwear brand made limited-edition Movember shoes in 2010 and 2011?

Later partners included Carlsberg, which produced moustache-grooming accessories in 2015, and Royal Mail with its moustache postmark.

A 2012 BMJ paper criticised the moustache charity under what title?

It argued the campaign's emphasis on screening tests was not evidence-based and drowned out mental illness, alcohol and obesity.

Which edition of EA's football game featured a Movember Cup in Ultimate Team?

FIFA 17 followed with a Movember player promotion, and Sony even issued a moustache sticker for the DualShock 4 controller.